After leaving the house, a cold cold air came to his face. Liu Yufan shuddered and became more energetic.

After taking a breath of cold air, Liu Yufan felt as if he had a drink of iced Coke! He looked up at the night sky. A crescent moon hung on the sky half high in the east, with stars everywhere, making people feel the depth and vastness of the universe.

This is the night sky in rural northern China in 1994. There is no warming climate or polluted air. The pure and clean night sky touched Liu Yufan. It was a feeling that no matter how many computer games you play or how luxurious the park and playground you go to.

On the streets of Dazhai Village, there are few people in a deserted state. Apart from the occasional lonely and lonely boys who can't stand the loneliness, they are barking, and there are only a few dim lights left. Without the colorful neon lights in the city and the hustle and bustle of bars, Liu Yufan, who has been living in the city for many years, feels like returning to nature. Just like the song "In Spring" sung by Wang Feng, all the past old days seem to have come back. It's great.

A group of young and half of them were scattering flashlights, and they were talking about some topics about children, sometimes from foreign muskets to firecrackers, sometimes from popular martial arts films to someone who is fighting very well. It would be better to say that they were going to take a birdie than to say that they were having a chat conference.

"Xiaofan, tomorrow is Zhumaying Market. Will you go to the market?" Wang Xiaoyong asked excitedly.

"Zhumayingji." Liu Yufan's mind suddenly appeared in the market scene, and the scene of crowded people appeared in his mind.

"There are so many people, why are you going?" Liu Yufan shook his head.

"Ah? You don't buy cannons!" Wang Xiaoyong was very surprised when he heard Liu Yufan say this. In his impression, Liu Yufan likes to set off firecrackers. Every year during the Chinese New Year, he will buy a bunch of firecrackers. He will set them up in half of the back street, and he will set them up, with the most variety. Liu Yufan said he didn't want to go to the market? You know, the last big market before the end of the year is the most important day for many children in Dazhai Village. For boys who like to play, it is even no less than New Year's Eve.

After hearing what Wang Xiaoyong said, Liu Yufan remembered that his family had not prepared the New Year's goods and had not bought his own "firecrackers". Setting off firecrackers is one of his favorite things during the Chinese New Year. Even when he got older, this habit has not changed. However, the small firecrackers have become second kicks, and there are more and more, but they are less and less able to find the feeling of childhood. It was not until then that Liu Yufan realized that he did not really like to set off firecrackers, but missed his childhood. Just like some people's childhood memories are a slingshot, some are a lyrics book, and some are a stack of match pieces.

"Haha, go." Liu Yufan said with a smile. After he was reborn, he cherished these little memories from the past. Some things can only be known how valuable they are when they are lost.

"Hehe, let's go together. Jiantou's family will go to drive the bus tomorrow." Wang Xiaoyong looked very excited.

"Well, our family will drive the bus. Then we will buy it together. My dad said he would buy me a 10-dollar cannon this year!" Liu Jian was very excited when he said this.

"Hehe, my dad said to buy me twenty yuan!" Wang Xiaoyong said proudly, and Liu Jian immediately stopped talking when he heard this.

"Just keep silent, stop talking, let's go to the corn pile in front to take a look." The person who spoke was Dajun, whose big name was Liu Jun, Liu Jian's brother. He is sixteen years old this year and is the "big child king" of the back street. Generally, he takes the lead in any "big matters" of children in the back street. Of course, Liu Yufan, a small gang of three, is a self-contained, but occasionally participates in such large group activities.

When the army was talking, the two of them didn't say anything, and they all walked gently with their waists on their waists, fearing that they would be shocked to the sparrows.

This pile of corn poles belongs to Liu Zhaohe's family. Liu Zhaohe is Liu Yufan's second cousin, Liu Jian's second uncle. He is a bachelor. His family is very poor and his house is very broken. He doesn't even have a wall. His yard is very large, with many corn poles piles, including his own, as well as Liu Jian and Yufan's family. Under the moonlight, piles of corn poles are like black monsters. If he passes here alone, he will definitely be frightened. Fortunately, there are many people here, and everyone is brave enough to find each other slowly.

The light column of the flashlight swept through the gaps between piles of corn poles, and half-aged men also had a very bright light in their eyes. They glanced sharply into the depths of the gap, trying to find the small gray figures.

"Oh, don't talk, I'll see one!" The army suddenly said in a low voice. When everyone heard his words, they were full of energy. They looked at the light column of the flashlight in his hand. They saw a little gray faintly appearing in a small crack in a pile of particularly large corn. I don't know if it was a sparrow, but everyone still threw the light column of the flashlight to the same place.

"Help me, don't make a sound." Dajun handed the flashlight to his younger brother Liu Jian next to him, and leaned forward gently.

Liu Jian took the flashlight, and the expression on his face was as serious as taking a steel gun. His eyes were also round, staring at that place nervously, and at the same time blocking the others behind with his body, whispering to warn them not to move, as if he was the second commander at this moment, but at this moment, his stupidity was much less.

Liu Yufan also shone the place with a flashlight, watching Liu Jun walk over gently like a cat, watching others either leaning against their waists or leaning against their sides, looking at the place with concern, and quietly experiencing the atmosphere at this moment in his heart. How simple is this kind of happiness! More than ten years later, these people are scattered around for their livelihood. Will they still remember the tension and happiness of catching sparrows together tonight?

Just as Liu Yufan's thoughts were floating wherever he drifted, Liu Jun shouted loudly, and he pounced on him, covering the gray spot just now with both hands. "Crash!" The pile of corn piles collapsed by his powerful force. Most of the other half-boys rushed up and nervously shone the light of the flashlight on his hand.

"Hu~~Hu~~" Liu Jun gasped, pulled out a handful of corn stalks from the pile of corn stalks and grabbed them tightly.

A series of flashlights gathered to the place where he was pressing his hands, and people kept urging him: "Hurry! Look, are you caught?"

Liu Jun carefully freed up his hand, peeling off the corn rod layer by layer like embroidery, and the eyes of the boys next to him were wide open, hoping to reveal his cute, gray head in his palm.

Unfortunately, until Liu Jun peeled off all the corn stalks in his hand, no one saw the small gray figure, only a few gray feathers.

"Well! It's so unlucky, just a few bird feathers!" Liu Jun said hatefully, looking depressed, and many "soldiers" also shouted, "It's a pity!"

"What are you doing? You run here to coax me again! The firewood pile has caused you to harm you!" A loud roar came, and at the same time, the broken wooden door in the middle of the broken tile house suddenly opened, a beam of light shot out from it, and behind it was the figure of bachelor Liu Zhaohe!

"Run!" Liu Jun shouted, and a group of young and old men scattered and ran towards their homes, some even screaming "screaming".

Bachelor Liu Zhaohe ran to the "crime scene" - a pile of messy corn poles. Seeing that there was no one left, he stood there and cursed a few times, and went back.

"Huhh~~~" At the door of Liu Yufan's house, he and Wang Xiaoyong were breathing heavily, but they still had time to smile "hehe", successfully getting rid of the smug smile of adults.

"Oh, it's so unlucky. I didn't catch the bird and was discovered." Wang Xiaoyong's words were filled with regret.

"Hehe, they are stupid. How can it be easy to catch birds in that kind of place? Birds usually don't stay there at night." Liu Yufan said with a smile at Wang Xiaoyong.

"Ah? No, where isn't there in the pile of firewood?" Wang Xiaoyong was a little disbelief, but he suddenly became energetic, because he seemed to be very confident in knowing where the bird was hiding.

"Come on, come with me." Liu Yufan waved to Wang Xiaoyong, and the latter followed him quickly.

"Don't make a sound, let me shine the flashlight later." Liu Yufan said, pushing open his green patent-skinned iron door and then walking towards the pigpen on the left.

"What are you doing in the pigpen?" Wang Xiaoyong asked in confusion.

"Shh~~~Don't talk!" Liu Yufan made a gesture of silence at Wang Xiaoyong, and then gently opened the door of the pigpen.

Liu Yufan's family has two pigpens, one with an old sow and the other with a few piglets. At this moment, the two people entered the pen that raised an old sow. Because the weather was cold, the feces in the pigpen had already been frozen hard, and the place where the two people settled was a pig nest, and there was a layer of straw on it, so it was not very dirty. Of course, the smell would definitely not smell very good.

The white-haired sow had probably just eaten food and was lying lazily there. He just hummed a few times when he heard something.

In winter, in order to keep warm, the sheds above the pigpen are covered with thick layers of straw and corn stalks. Because of the temperature of the pigs, it is warmer than ordinary firewood piles.

Liu Yufan looked carefully with the flashlight. He looked at it very carefully, patiently and organizedly, and was not aimlessly searching for it like those children. After a while, he saw a gray little head in the cracks between the straw.

Wang Xiaoyong also saw it and shouted in a low voice: "Yes, there is one here!" He said it completely with a breath, but it was still difficult to hide the excitement in the voice.

Liu Yufan steadily handed the flashlight to him and whispered, "Help me carry it." His voice was very low, but very calm. When he heard his voice, Wang Xiaoyong's confidence increased greatly for no reason.

Liu Yufan looked at the little sparrow that seemed a little at a loss due to the strong light, and his right hand slowly but steadily stretched out his hand to the place where it was until it was only ten centimeters away from the little thing, and then he reached out his hand like lightning, accurately covering the place.

Liu Yufan felt a struggle coming from his palm. The little guy kept resisting, but he could not change his fate of being caught.

"Don't be angry, I'll play with you for a while and I'll let you go right away." Liu Yufan leisurely handed the bird to his left hand, shook the straw in his right hand, and then touched the gray little head. But the little guy didn't appreciate it and pecked Liu Yufan and his mouth hard.

"Hurry, let me see!" Wang Xiaoyong looked at the "baby" in Liu Yufan's hand in surprise. This trick is not easy to catch. Don't look at the fact that they and a few young men always come out to "catch" these small things at night, but they are so smart and cunning. It is a great thing to catch one. Even a big child like the army has to show off for a long time when he catches one. But now, he has just caught one by two of them, and it is quite big!

"For you." Liu Yufan casually handed the bird to Wang Xiaoyong, who took it as a treasure and handed the flashlight to Liu Yufan.

The little guy looks so cute, with a round head, a black bean-like little eyes, a gray-white mouth, a white chest, and a pink claw. However, it seems very angry now and is sleeping just right, but it is caught for no reason.

Wang Xiaoyong ignored these things and ran to the street with the sparrow, shouting at the top of his throat: "Look at it quickly, Xiaofan caught a big one!"

This sentence works better than anything else, "Hulala!" The doors of each house in the back street were pushed open at about the same time. The half-aged and half-aged men quickly ran to Liu Yufan's door at the speed of an army gathering, and even the army came.

"Where? Let me see!"

"How big is it?"

"Where was it grabbed? Is there any?"

...

Wang Xiaoyong was surrounded by everyone. The bird in his hand was like a big-name star at this moment, shining by several flashlights. He shrank his head in panic and did not dare to move.

"Hey, it's so big, bigger than the last time the army captured it."

"Be careful, don't let it fly!"

"Let me touch it."

...

This "bird-watching conference" lasted for more than ten minutes, and the talents were still dispersed. A few unwilling to give up and ran to other people's pigpens to catch them.

"Xiaofan, let's go to your house to find a thread and tie its legs." Wang Xiaoyong said.

"Let's go after playing for a while. This bird is very savvy and can't be raised at night." Liu Yufan said with a smile.

"Ah? Let it go?" Wang Xiaoyong was reluctant to let it go when he heard Liu Yufan's words, but he also knew that Liu Yufan was telling the truth. Sparrows never eat people feeding them, and they would die if they were raised for one day at most. Seeing this bird so beautiful, I was really reluctant to let it go when it died, but Wang Xiaoyong really wanted to raise it, and a contradictory look flashed in his eyes.

"Okay, don't be that kind of virtue. If you like, let's catch it tomorrow night, won't it be over?" Liu Yufan said with a smile, then took the sparrow back from Wang Xiaoyong's hand and turned around and walked towards the house.

"Oh, Xiaofan, don't you say let it go?" Wang Xiaoyong chased after him.

"Show me, she hasn't seen it yet." Liu Yufan said.

"Oh, I'll see me later." Wang Xiaoyong chased after me again.

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Chapter completed!